UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the first plenary meeting of the 79th session of UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 10, 2024. The 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) was declared open on Tuesday by Philemon Yang, the General Assemb...
Riyad Mansour, the permanent observer of Palestine to the United Nations, is greeted after the General Assembly adopted a resolution at the UN headquarters in New York, on May 10, 2024. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday adopted a resolution supporting the Palestinian bid to become a f...
targets,accountability frameworks,and funding.The upcoming second high-level meeting on AMR at the UN General Assembly(UNGA)in September,2024,is evidence of political interest in addressing the problem of AMR,but action on targets,accountability,and funding,absent from the 2016 UNGA resoluti...
25 September 2024- At the Summit of the Future and the high-level debate of the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in New York, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President,Thomas Bach, met more than 30 heads of state and governmen...
There were similar verdicts on climate action at September’s UN General Assembly meeting. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, global lead on climate and energy for campaign group WWF, concluded that leaders’ “words do not match their actions” and they are “failing dismally”. ...
Remarks by Ambassador Dai Bing, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, at the UN General Assembly Meeting on the Use of Veto Mr. President, On March ...
Turkish diplomat and politician Volkan Bozkir announced that the General Assembly will hold a high-level special session on the COVID-19 pandemic in early November, though diplomats said the date may slip. He told a press conference later it would have been better to hold the meeting at an ...
On the same day, the UN General Assembly also convened an emergency meeting, where Ukraine proposed a draft which states that Russia's attacks are responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in the country.RELATED STORIES UNSC adopts resolution for peace between Ukraine and Russia ...
President of the General Assembly Dennis Francis said on Monday that 1 out of every 10 women lives in extreme poverty. According to the UN, about 10.3 percent of women around the world today live in extreme poverty, and they a...